Whip It Out, Baby
After the incident (and the resulting, huge, PR nightmare Delta is currently facing) a couple of weeks ago, I REALLY wanted to write something on here in response, but couldn’t without using a lot of letters, if you get my drift. So I found a self-portrait I took at Tracey’s house while we were in Texas, and found someone who’s funnier than I am.
Some parts of the breasts are okay–the cleavage, for instance–but the utilitarian parts are, objectively speaking, abhorrent. Victoria’s Secret employees understand this. They spend their days supporting and lifting the objects in question, so they know. And when a nursing woman was asked to feed her child in the employee bathroom, that’s what they were trying to teach her—that those circles in the middle of the breasts are the dirty bathroom parts.
Nursing women are killers, and they must be stopped.
November 28th, 2006 at 2:53 am
Oh my goodness!!!!!
Glad we are not flying delta when we come for our visit soon…
Women here in Scotland do not breastfeed… so when I do I always get looks.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:30 am
Whitney - Where in Scotland do you stay? I find that the Scottish are far MORE into breastfeeding than Americans. At least here in the West (Glasgow, etc).
November 28th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Wow Kristen! I have faced several confrontations about nursing my daughters when they were babies. (Now 7, 6 &3) Luckily, I live in Texas, where the law states that a woman can breastfeed anywhere she is allowed to be in public: mall, restaurant, grocery store, post office, shoe store… You get the idea. Let me tell you that I probably pushed those boundaries, only because I confidently nursed super-discretely and I just LOVED telling nosy people that I was well within the laws and they needed to leave me and my baby alone. I may have said something about ‘interrupting THEIR lunch only to ask them to finish in the bathroom’…
Don’t get me started!
November 29th, 2006 at 2:51 am
I am on Orkney Island. Gave birth in Aberdeen. It is probably way more progressive in the big cities. That makes me happy though. I was kind of shocked at the few nursing mothers I have met. I did come from Austin though where if you are not nursing you are the odd one out.
November 29th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
You know, I nursed my son and have done so in public without covering up on numerous occassions, but I have to say I have not ever encountered strange looks from on-lookers or negative feedback. And while I fully support nursing women everywhere, I understand the reactions of those who feel they need to tell us to cover up or go somewhere else. I don’t believe it’s the act of feeding our children that society opposes but rather simply the exposure of breasts…a part of our body that we are taught to cover up and are taught to feel uncomfortable when we are exposed or when we see any other usually covered up body part exposed. I am not quick to shake my finger at society and say “shame on you”. I don’t mind covering up if it makes someone uncomfortable. I do believe in teaching more tolerance for nursing women (perhaps a quieter stance than some), but I know it will be a process overtime that I think one day will be achieved.
November 29th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
hee hee, just had to say how funny (and sad) it is that breastfeeding is the “progressive” way to nourish kids (per whitney). if women in the middle ages could hear us, they’d be laughing up a storm…